The asteroid-hopping spacecraft spotted four of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids that it will visit from 2027 onwards.
After this, LUCY will return to Earth in around 2030 for a third gravity boost before heading off to the pair of giant asteroids known as Patroclus-Menoetius, which are each more than 60 miles wide. LUCY will reach this double rock at around 2033.
A high resolution topographic map of the Yucatan Peninsula created with data collected in the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and released on March 7, 2003 in Washington, D.C. In the upper left portion of the peninsula, a faint arc of dark green is visible indicating the remnants of the Chicxulub impact crater.
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